Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Blue Monday, how I hate Blue Monday…

Well, it should be evident by now that I failed to get a new
installment of Doris Day(s) up on
the blog yesterday.I had every
intention of fulfilling this task…but The Jack
Webb and Stage-to-Screen
Blogathons ate up a lot of time (it wasn’t an imposition—I kinda rather
figured they would) and when it came down to brass tacks I had three essays to
write, and only enough time to do two of them.One of them was an outside project, and the other was an entry in Overlooked Films on Tuesday/Adventures in Blu-ray, which will post
in another hour.I figured that since I
skipped Overlooked Films last week
and we were kinda sorta at a stopping point before the second season of The
Doris Day Show begins, that the TDOY
faithful could hold off on the shenanigans of Dodo for one week.(Besides, it’s not like it’s going to get any
funnier, good people.)

Gonna be a crazy busy week here at Rancho Yesteryear with
several outside projects dropping by like so many gentleman callers; I will
definitely have something for the blog’s “On the Grapevine” feature tomorrow
but Chapter 4 of The Black Widow is
still up in the air.(Which is ironic,
since the title of that installment is “Peril in the Sky.”)In the meantime, I’ve got a couple of pieces
up at ClassicFlix that you might be interested
in: the subjects being Ali
Baba Goes to Town (1937) and The
Brasher Doubloon (1947).As
Rachel Maddow would say—watch this space.